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https://mcmansionhell.com/post/689305806756315136
Created
Sat, 09/07/2022 - 23:27

Howdy, folks! Today we will be heading down south to the Atlanta suburbs to view what may be the most yassified house in existence.(The quality of the photos is proportional to the quality of the estate, my apologies.) Also, special thanks to my friend Kristjan who contributed to finding the house and also some of the captions (fondue machine all was him.)

Built smack dab in the Pimp My Ride era (2007) it’s got 8 bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms, totaling a completely reasonable and not at all absurd 17,500 square feet. $7,750,000, it’s up there as one of the more expensive houses on the blog in its six (6!!) years. (Happy Birthday McMansion Hell!)

Without further ado:

Updated Debian 11: 11.4 released

https://www.debian.org/News/2022/20220709
Created
Sat, 09/07/2022 - 00:00
The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian 11 (codename bullseye). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available.

Boris Johnson has vandalised the political architecture of Britain, Ireland and Europe | Fintan O’Toole

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/08/boris-johnson-politics-br…
Created
Fri, 08/07/2022 - 23:45

His political career has consisted of chucking rocks over the walls of the neighbours. We will live with the damage for years

It seems rather apt that Boris Johnson pocketed a huge advance from a publisher for a book about William Shakespeare but never got round to writing it. Johnson’s rise and fall hovers between cheap farce and theatre of the absurd. It has none of the grandeur of tragedy. The only line of Shakespeare’s that came to mind at his political demise was the first bit of Mark Antony’s elegy for Julius Caesar: “The evil that men do lives after them”. If the good that Johnson did in his public life is to be interred with his bones, the coffin will be light enough. But the evil will weigh heavily on the coming decades.

From Junk Economics to a False View of History: Where Western Civilization Took a Wrong Turn

https://michael-hudson.com/2022/07/from-junk-economics-to-a-false-view-of-histo…
Created
Fri, 08/07/2022 - 10:13

A presentation to the Building bridges around David Graeber’s legacy conference, Paris, Friday July 7, 2022 It may seem strange to invite an economist to give a keynote speech to a conference of the social sciences. Economists have been characterized as autistic and anti-social in the popular press for good reason. They are trained to Continue Reading

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Wage Stagnation and Productivity: Challenging the Conventional Analysis

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Created
Fri, 08/07/2022 - 05:46

Stagnating real wages may have contributed to the slowdown of US productivity

In much of the advanced world, we have witnessed at least three decades of stagnating real wages and massive reductions in the labor share in income. Many analyses have documented these trends, reflecting on their causes and effects from very different standpoints. In the US economy, where the trend toward wage stagnation seems to be particularly strong, it goes together, according to Temin (2015), Storm (2017), and Taylor and Ömer (2020), with a ‘dualistic’ tendency of the economy, with growing polarization between a limited number of high-wage and high-productivity sectors and a growing mass of workers employed in low-productivity and low-wage sectors. Wage stagnation, Taylor and Ömer (2020) note, is also the basis of the growing inequality in personal and family incomes recorded in the USA as well as in many other societies.

Push the Big Blue Button again for DWCA 2022 AGM

http://dwca.org.au/push-the-big-blue-button-again-for-dwca-2022-agm/
Created
Mon, 04/07/2022 - 20:10
DATE: Sunday 21 August 2022 TIME: 4pm VENUE: 2nd Floor Club Burwood, 97 Burwood Road, Burwood NSW AGENDA: President’s Report; Treasurer’s Report; and Election of Office Bearers. Once again we’ll be offering people an online attendance option conferencing software Big Blue Button, which has a neat built-in poll function for taking votes. An email with the invite code will be sent out to members the day before (Saturday August 20). Any candidate standing for election as an Office Bearer (President, Vice President, Secretary or Treasurer) must be a current DWCA member who has held membership for a minimum period of… Continue reading

Quotable Quotes.

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2022/07/quotable-quotes.html
Created
Sat, 02/07/2022 - 07:26


“I don’t know how they want to get undressed, above or below the waist, but I think it would be a disgusting sight in any case”, Volodya Pew-teen, as quoted by AP.

I’m just a low-income, sort-of white, ageing, male, semi-educated Aussie worker: a pleb. To rub shoulders with such VIPs is not one of my many privileges, so I have no direct, personal knowledge on those matters and it’s impossible for me to say either way.

Thank goodness!

What I can say with absolute certainty is that this is how people imagined the previous White House tenant:

Assessing the Impact of Childcare Expansion in Mexico: Time Use, Employment, and Poverty

https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/?docid=2766
Created
Fri, 01/07/2022 - 00:43
There is broad consensus in both research and policy circles that one of the key reasons for a lack of progress in reducing gender gaps in employment and wages is the persistent gender imbalance in unpaid work, three-quarters of which is performed by women. Universal access to quality care services enables the reduction of this unpaid care work through its redistribution from the domestic sphere to the public sphere, with empirical studies from different regions and countries demonstrating that access to services (in particular, childcare services) substantially increases female labor force participation and labor market attachment.